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Something Absolute

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Ruth Jolly, for whom 'spiritual conviction co-exists with intellectual ambivalence' had in middle age almost stopped wrestling with questions of faith when ...On a bitter February day, Charlie, her student son, crashed in a light aircraft. Witnesses who saw the plane hit the ground, expected to recover only bodies, but against all the odds, Charlie lived. Airlifted to hospital with horrific injuries, he continued to live. As his hold on life strengthened, Ruth kept a scruffy, bemused, emotionally-charged diary. It compelled her to ponder her comfortably vague ideas about Christianity. A few years on, the challenge was fading as 'Charlie's miracle' receded and the diary remained painfully unreadable. Then, in a cold February start to Lent, she picked up the diary and began to read it alongside the New Testament book of 'Acts'. To her utter astonishment, in the company of the earliest Christians she found a way to think clearly again: about survivors, about purpose, about faith and above all, about love. This is a book for anyone who, for whatever reason, is thinking or re-thinking their Christianity.

Something Absolute by Ruth Jolly was published by John Hunt Publishing in September 2009. The ISBN for Something Absolute is 9781846942358.

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Something Absolute

Something Absolute is firstly an interesting read, with some touches of loveliness in the prose. Ruth Jolly writes, including diary extracts, of the journey during and after her son Charlie’s survival from a plane crash, which she runs alongside a narrative of her reflections from the New Testament. There were a few expressions from the writer that gave cause to deliberate over and they would have to be read in context. For me the best part of the book was the love story between Charlie and Melissa. The woman who took Charlie on during his fight to rebuild a life and walk again, commanded my respect and affection.

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